ASUS EEE with 8.9 inch screen at Cebit 2008

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:39:24AM +0000, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> As has been mentioned, larger laptops have traditionally been less
> expensive than equal-quality smaller ones.
> 
> (for a lenovo-to-lenovo comparison, consider the price of the new X300,
> which is as close as the company gets to the Asus in size/weight.)
> 
> Also consider air travel. If you're in economy class and the person in
> front of you leans the seat back, most conventional laptops can't open
> more than 45 degrees. Small systems like the Asus will work in that
> environment fine.
> 
> This field is about to get even more crowded.
> 
> HP will soon have an entry that's more expensive than the Asus but also
> have a very Mac-like slickness to it:
> http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/19/hps-umpc-2133-revealed/

No more HP products for me.

> A lot of that money goes towards the circuitry that makes the SSD look
> like a regular hard disk (ie, the ATA interface).

Strangely Compact Flash seems cheap enough and it has an ATA interface
too.

> Most of these small laptops accept SD cards for extra NVRAM. These days
> an 16GB SD card is under $100.
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=016766&cid=990.218.675
> 
> While the 24GB on an ASUS (8GB onboard plus 16GB of SD) is still a lot
> less than 160GB of a regular hard disk, it's still plenty for many --
> and as has been said it's faster, lighter, cooler and more durable.

It's quite a bit.

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